Three ex-intelligence officials who signed on to an influential 2020 letter baselessly linking Hunter Biden’s laptop to Russia later were tapped for top roles in the federal government under POTUS Joe Biden, records show.
The October 2020 letter, which over 50 former intelligence officials joined and alleged Russia had involvement with the laptop, has since come back under the spotlight following ex-Obama CIA acting Director Mike Morell testifying to Congress that then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken, now secretary of state, “triggered” him to organize it.
Bash, who is now a managing director at the Washington, D.C.-based international strategic consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, had called Morell and got Ricchetti on the other line, Morell testified. Bash was previously ex-chief of staff for both the CIA and Defense Department under Obama, where he advised then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — another signer of the Hunter Biden laptop letter.
“This looks like Russian intelligence. This walks like Russian intelligence. This talks like Russian intelligence,” Bash claimed on MSNBC on Oct. 19, 2020. “This effort by Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic Russian playbook disinformation campaign.”
“When you have an administration that has weaponized these agencies, it’s a dangerous time right now,” Nehls said. “I received it, thought it was a prudent warning, appropriately caveated given the sourcing and what we did/didn’t know at the time, and agreed to sign it,” he wrote in an email on Thursday. “And as I’ve told the press and the Congress over the past year, I applaud any effort to get to ground truth.”
Meanwhile, another laptop signer recently made his way into the halls of government. David Buckley, the CIA's inspector general from 2010 to 2015, went on to become staff director for the House Jan. 6 committee.
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